Wasn’t there one called Lost Cities of Gold, or something similar?
I just remembered Today’s Special, as well. That one was deliciously bad. I can still hear the little jingle in my head.
Ren & Stimpy is the only television show I absolutely forbade my children to watch.
My 22 year old daughter happens to be in the next room, and mentioned Darkwing Duck, Grimm’s Fairy Tales and something she thinks was called The Cat Came Back – the latter, as she recalls, was a continuing set of episodes where the kept trying to get rid of a cat, finally shooting it into space.
I also remember her watching Double Dare, and whenever they listed the prizes, she’d say “a kid would/wouldn’t like that.”
kunilou - I do remember something with some guy playing a guitar singing that song. My step dad and I used to watch it and sing the song.
Camp Salute Your Shorts! I used to have nightmares about Zeek the plumber, because I thought he was going to try to steal my head at night.
The Adventures of Pete and Pete was great too. I was so sad when stopped showing those reruns.
Also, I used to love Nancy Drew, but The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo were so much better.
The original cast of All That rocked, although subsequent casts became worse and worse until we have the cast that is today a horrible show. (I think…I saw maybe one episode awhile back and it was awful.) I loved Lori Beth.
It was probably just a silly kid thing, but Clarissa Explains It All is the reason I love Melissa Joan Heart for years to come. Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, hey cool!… She always had the coolest clothes.
IMO, the children of today have really crappy TV compared to the nineties, bad cartoons, reality and all. Of course, people would probably say the same thing about the stuff I watched.
Don’t forget Clarissa Explains it All and Dangermouse.
I’m with Nonsuch - I had a thing for Moose (Christine McGlade) on YCDTOTV. She was hot in a totally not-hot kind of way. I also had a thing for Lisa Ruddy, but for the geek factor.
By the way, you can check out your favorite YCDTOTV cast member Here including “Where are they now” stuff.
Moose still looks like Moose, looks like Lisa got kinda milfy.
Sheep in the Big City. bah bah bah
Oswald (an octopus)
Pinky & the Brain
I would kill for the Cat Came Back shorts on CD or DVD or anything. I remember they ran when there were a couple minutes to kill in between programs.
The cat came back
the very next day.
The cat came back.
They thought he was a goner
but the cat came back
the very next day.
He just couldn’t stay away.
God I loved early Nickelodeon. I stopped watching the channel (for the most part) around the time they got Stick Stickley for Nick in the Afternoon. That just seemed lame to me. The fact I was around 12 or 13 had nothing to do with it. 
Although Pete and Pete was a definite exception. God I loved that show.
Here’s how you guys can judge how disfunctional my family is* : Ren and Stimpy was a family show for us. God, every single person in my family (my mom, my dad, my brother (about 15 when it came out) and me (about 9 when it came out)) would watch it and laugh our freaking asses off!
- all in good fun, of course.
The greatest cartoon ever on Nick: Rocko’s Modern Life. The older I get, the more I realize the Bigheads were all too real, and I am becoming Ed Bighead. At least I don’t fall in love with mops, like Spunky, or go to Heck and back, like Heffer. And my nakedness would never win an Australian film award.
The Cat Came Back is one of those National Board of Film deals from Canada. Used to play all the time Sunday nights on CN. You go looking for Canadian toons, you should find it, but I think there was only the one.
No love for Welcome, Freshmen?
No recollection of Welcome, Freshman.
You’re thinking of “Today’s Special.”
Sharon, Lois and Bram’s elephant show. I don’t remember how old I was, but it made me want to chew glass even then. Ugh.
Second Dangermouse. Wherever there is danger he’ll be there.
Out of Control. I remember when the kid built a model of the Challenger. I must’ve been about 7 and I chuckled at how old the show was because the Challenger had already blown up.
Damn, this thread is taking me back.
I was thinking the same thing, only compared to the 80s.
But I have to admit the stuff in the 90s was pretty good, even if I was growing out of the demographic. Loved ‘Salute Your Shorts,’ ‘Roundhouse,’ ‘Pete & Pete.’
But I just have a soft spot for those really early Nick shows, ‘Pinwheel’ notwithstanding.
I think it would be interesting to post our ages at the end of our posts, for reference’s sake.
I’m 30.
Happy
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101235/
It and Salute Your Shorts (Mm… Dina) were my favorites as a kid.
**Khan **
Ahem…
Skin a marinky dinky dink
Skin a marinky do
I LOVE YOU!
I love you in the morning and in the afternoon
I love you in the evening underneath the moon!
and
One elephant went out to play
upon a spider’s web one day
he had such enormous fun
that he called for another elephant to come
“Shouldn’t that be he—”
“SHHHHH! Censors!”
Rocko was awesome. By far the best of the Nicktoons… that I’ve seen anyway.
I remember watching The Noozles when I was a kid. It was a show about koalas from another dimension that masqueraded as a little girl’s stuffed animals. The rubbed noses with them to get them to come to life. Very strange show- the koalas’ universe was nutty. I really liked it.
I really miss when they used to rerun The Muppet Show on a daily basis…
I’m nearly 23.
OMG!!! WELCOME FRESHMEN!!!
I loved that show…and…yet…remember nothing about it. Argh.
goes off to Google, hopefully to find some pictures that will jog my memory
oh and I am 23, so I guess I wasn’t 8 at the time of Salute Your Shorts. Wasn’t that on in the mid-nineties? Can’t be arsed to look that up, too.
Some love for a few that I haven’t seen mentioned:
Calliope - I’m 25, so this would have been '85 or '86, pretty early on. I seem to recall it being a Sesame Street-esque show with a lot of little shorts put together…mostly animated, but with a lot of stop-motion, claymation, and not a lot of dialogue.
Funhouse - a game show where the set with a cutaway of a big house, with each room having its own bizarre theme. I remember the regular game involving lots of weird things, but the winning team got to tear through the house in search of hidden flags or something like that.
Also, much love for the already mentioned Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Pretty sure this wasn’t ever on Nick, but I do remember watching it. Hosted by some blond cheeseball, with a fat guy named Tiny as a co-host. Loved that show!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247869/#comment imlies that it was on Nick before moving to Fox.
You’re trying to kill me, aren’t you?
Anyone remember Count Duckula?